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notes app: july of intern year

“Do you want to live like this?”

the patients’ wife
and her questions.

Headlong for feeling, only
to touch more mysteries:

from b**** to best doctor ever–

ensnared in frustration of
finding work that feels like it matters.

Meanwhile,

do less,
think about what’s at hand

try to remember there’s a
god of small things

notes app: july of intern year, Literature by Kirsten Myers, MD

Kirsten Myers, MD

PGY-1, Preliminary Medicine
PGY-2, Neurology

Kirsten has been writing all throughout her journey in medicine to "help make the distance go away." She has had a poem published in the online narrative journal Intima and won local writing competitions in medical school. You can frequently find her in the hospital typing poems in her notes app, or out of the hospital somewhere in the Wasatch, with her phone on do not disturb.

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